Comments: Samuel B Parsons (Nee: ) | | 1851-1900 | Comments: Samuel B. Parsons was born in Flushing Long Island, NY in 1819. He became a nurseryman and an author. This portrait of him appears as frontpiece to vol.XXIX of The Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, 1887. There is also a biographical sketch of him on pages 378-379 of that volume.